Me And Vinyl Have Been Getting Back Into It

Vinyl has been enjoying a renaissance that frankly is surprising to.

Me and vinyl have been getting back into it.

Many of my copies appear scratched up and come from dollar bins and thrift stores and i clean each incoming record using a washing system. Turntables are overtaking cd players in terms of most used sources though digital files still have a stranglehold and with vinyl events like record store day getting bigger every year vinyl culture is once. Just going into the store took us back to our teens when we d walk from our lancs village to st helens to buy say bowie s david live 10 99 in 1982 a tremendous sum at our price before. None of my old records have skips and of the almost 800 used records i have amassed ever since getting back into vinyl three years ago not one has a needle skip.

Here s how to properly cue up a song on a vinyl record. The vinyl pressing is a wonderful example of how the medium can breath life into the music. Not long ago vinyl collecting was a niche hobby enjoyed by analog loving geeks ourselves included but things have changed. On wax it s inflected with a subtle warmth and a good showing of dynamic range that ll seat you.

Raise the cueing lever near the base of the tonearm to lift the arm swing the arm above the record and aim the needle so that when the cueing lever is lowered the needle will land in. Awesome mix tape 2 was released after guardians of the galaxy came out making it one of the first commercially successful audio cassette tapes to be put out in years. Over time you ll start to hear ticks and pops as the vinyl is gradually getting gouged in those areas. Vinyl records have been slowly making a massive comeback over the last five years and we wanted to find out why.

However an even older musical product is recovering.